tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:10:53 +0000TownsvilleDatabasesspecial collectionsLibrary ResourcesOpening hoursCairnsNew ResourcesBook reviewsOutageseBooksTrainingBook displaysReading ChallengeEventsLibrary ServicesGeneral ResourcesJCU Collection ServicesBooksResearchonline resourcesEndNote2016ExamsFossickings2017Open AccessLibrary buildingLibrary spacesTrialsAboriginal and Torres Strait IslanderReferencingLibGuidesComputingNorth Queensland Photographic CollectionInternational DayNorth Queensland CollectionResearchOnline[at]JCUjournalsPrintingAcademic writingInfoHelpOweekOne SearcheJournalsLearnJCUworkshopsAustraliaAustralian writersReserve OnlineT150 Townsville Past and PresentexhibitionmoviesvacationWeb siteBetween BattlesEddie Koiki MaboTropicatdvdseResourcesLibrary ArchivesMedicalSir C.M. 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You'll find the section on <a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/infolit3/search-strategy">search strategies</a> particularly useful (especially if you couldn't get to one of our library sessions in O Week - or even if you <i>did</i>&nbsp;make it, but you need a recap).<br /><br /><a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/infolit4">Source City</a> is one of the most important modules in the Road Trip. It doesn't matter how good your searching skills are if you can't tell the difference between a <a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/infolit4/recognise-credible-sources">good</a> source of information and a bad one (and your assignment is only as good as your sources).<br /><br /><a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/infolit5">Credibility Creek</a> helps you understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid it by referencing properly.<br /><br />Then we have a few <a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/infolit6">detours</a>, which help you manage your research, find Australian information and navigate the pitfalls of web sites.<br /><br />It's a very useful trip to take.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/vhO70tHCqec" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/vhO70tHCqec/take-info-skills-road-trip.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sharon B)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/03/take-info-skills-road-trip.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-7684981663408253629Sun, 17 Mar 2019 05:46:00 +00002019-03-17T15:54:05.067+10:00Library ArchivesNorth Queenslandspecial collectionsJCU Library collecting history: Environmental Advocacy in North Queensland<br />JCU Library Special Collections continues to collect documentary evidence and records pertaining to the history of North Queensland across many fields of research, including environmental studies. The Library Archives feature a number of archives which pertain specifically to this theme including notably the <a href="http://libserver.jcu.edu.au/specials/Archives/busst.html" target="_blank">John Busst Archive</a> and the <a href="http://libserver.jcu.edu.au/specials/Archives/nelly.html" target="_blank">Nelly Bay Archive</a>.&nbsp; Explore our complete listing of holdings for the <a href="http://libserver.jcu.edu.au/Specials/holdings.html" target="_blank">Library Archives here</a>.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--y46OiPYPYw/XI3TvAqsjII/AAAAAAAABfA/099sRKUWdeUINcKKKj0ICBKr3uQ3f9N5QCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_6444.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--y46OiPYPYw/XI3TvAqsjII/AAAAAAAABfA/099sRKUWdeUINcKKKj0ICBKr3uQ3f9N5QCLcBGAs/s640/IMG_6444.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Donor, Ben Trupperbaumer in the studio of Monsoon Publishing in Townsville, signing his new folio of limited edition artist prints (woodcuts) connected to the Newsletters of the MRCD.</i></td></tr></tbody></table>This year Ben Trupperbaumer's generous donation, currently on display in the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library (Townsville Campus), enriches this aspect of our collections as it includes, not only a beautiful artist print folio and matching wood blocks, but importantly a complete set of the Newsletters of the MRCD: The Movement for the Responsible Coastal Development which was the first incorporated conservation group based in Mission Beach during the early 1990s.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-53-bHVqujww/XI3V0vMiolI/AAAAAAAABfY/7SjrDMn0zxoje98L5FzVMfgHm1_VZVOSgCLcBGAs/s1600/1st%2BN_AR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="1190" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-53-bHVqujww/XI3V0vMiolI/AAAAAAAABfY/7SjrDMn0zxoje98L5FzVMfgHm1_VZVOSgCLcBGAs/s400/1st%2BN_AR.jpg" width="337" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3LvzRkjNyZI/XI3V5tgrKgI/AAAAAAAABfc/gL8WIq1m06EnPSfUJlSKyie7ssAfsnRrgCLcBGAs/s1600/1st%2BN_%252Cmore%2Bblue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3LvzRkjNyZI/XI3V5tgrKgI/AAAAAAAABfc/gL8WIq1m06EnPSfUJlSKyie7ssAfsnRrgCLcBGAs/s640/1st%2BN_%252Cmore%2Bblue.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The donation includes all of the Newsletters and the Annual Report.&nbsp; See the cover of the first Newsletter above featuring an image of an artwork (woodcut) by Ben Trupperbaumer.&nbsp; Every Newsletter is adorned with a reproduction of a woodcut print by Ben.</i></td></tr></tbody></table>The MRCD was established in April, 1990 with 10 founding members and held its first formal meeting on June 26 of the same year.&nbsp; By early 1991, more than 200 members had joined the group, some from as far afield as Europe.&nbsp; During its early years the Movement was actively concerned with improving the environmental quality of developments at Clump Point, Wongaling Beach and Mission Beach South, and with related issues of sewerage, disposal, recycling, and energy efficiency.&nbsp; Submissions were made to many official agencies and Committees of Enquiry, including the Tully Millstream Review, the House of Representatives Protections of the Coastal Environment Subcommittee, and the Federal Government’s Ecologically Sustainable Development Discussion Paper.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xn1WijqeZVg/XI3Z6YueRLI/AAAAAAAABgY/EsVG9Iz_-JkmHzl9fSXlqVJETRIBzMgsQCLcBGAs/s1600/1st%2BNewsletter%2Bopen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1105" data-original-width="1484" height="476" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xn1WijqeZVg/XI3Z6YueRLI/AAAAAAAABgY/EsVG9Iz_-JkmHzl9fSXlqVJETRIBzMgsQCLcBGAs/s640/1st%2BNewsletter%2Bopen.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Inside the first Newsletter of the MRCD published in 1990.&nbsp; Photo shows the inside cover (left) and first page (right).</i></td></tr></tbody></table>Importantly, the MRCD Newsletters document these activities from the group’s point of view and add to the historical record for North Queensland.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SQU5eBJlwQo/XI3WmAMxAQI/AAAAAAAABfk/k_kh-lZ-pLM0e0Em8xEwFJxA7xSC0HR_QCLcBGAs/s1600/1%2BBreaking%2BIce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1252" data-original-width="1172" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SQU5eBJlwQo/XI3WmAMxAQI/AAAAAAAABfk/k_kh-lZ-pLM0e0Em8xEwFJxA7xSC0HR_QCLcBGAs/s400/1%2BBreaking%2BIce.jpg" width="372" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Original woodcut print titled "Breaking (the) ice" by Ben Trupperbaumer reprinted in 2016 for the new print folio he has included in his current donation.&nbsp; JCU Library has received number 1 in the edition of 15 copies of the artist print folio.</i></td></tr></tbody></table>In the current exhibition, each Newsletter of the MRCD: The Movement for Responsible Coastal Development is displayed with its corresponding artwork - woodcut print (as featured on the cover) and the unique wood block employed to produce the original artist print.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/03/join-us-in-celebrating-ben.html" target="_blank">Read more now</a> about all facets of the donation (artist print folio, wood blocks and MRCD Newsletters) in our first blog post.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-59yVGW7uPTE/XI3XaYdikWI/AAAAAAAABf4/FOAs6RygXwM_BMOmQGZYwhkYA414VustQCEwYBhgL/s1600/Breaking%2BIce%2B1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-59yVGW7uPTE/XI3XaYdikWI/AAAAAAAABf4/FOAs6RygXwM_BMOmQGZYwhkYA414VustQCEwYBhgL/s320/Breaking%2BIce%2B1.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tFrHHKwfPCc/XI3XnEQ3YvI/AAAAAAAABgA/cA4YiPnnurYkS0fTsAApZJDpdXsA_4NTgCEwYBhgL/s1600/Breaking%2BIce%2B2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tFrHHKwfPCc/XI3XnEQ3YvI/AAAAAAAABgA/cA4YiPnnurYkS0fTsAApZJDpdXsA_4NTgCEwYBhgL/s320/Breaking%2BIce%2B2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D2uqx15aiFE/XI3XrGuDrOI/AAAAAAAABf8/S_a3nQhBUfQGhtVwJ8MpwLQ9c-LOPN_cQCEwYBhgL/s1600/Breaking%2BIce_3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D2uqx15aiFE/XI3XrGuDrOI/AAAAAAAABf8/S_a3nQhBUfQGhtVwJ8MpwLQ9c-LOPN_cQCEwYBhgL/s400/Breaking%2BIce_3.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Three different views of the one of the beautiful wood blocks made by Ben Trupperbaumer. &nbsp; The one shown pertains to his artwork (woodcut print) titled "Breaking (the) ice".&nbsp; All of the wood blocks are included in his donation to JCU Library Special Collections.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/5pE3-TWyCBo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/5pE3-TWyCBo/jcu-library-collecting-history.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bronwyn)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/03/jcu-library-collecting-history.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-2288629427948818565Wed, 13 Mar 2019 23:49:00 +00002019-03-14T09:49:59.722+10:00Book reviewsReading ChallengeReading Challenge: Shakespearean ThingsFor our first round of reviews for March, we looked at the theme of <i><a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/03/reading-challenge-march-languages-and.html">Languages and Literature</a></i>&nbsp;and got a little bit Shakespearean.<br /><br />Just a little bit. Not to the extent of actually reading Shakespeare, but by looking at a couple of books that nod in his direction.<br /><br />Tasch read Virginia Woolf's classic extended essay <i>A Room of One's Own</i>, which uses Shakespeare's (not entirely real) sister to explore issues faced by women in a male-dominated society. Sharon played Hamlet (and Ophelia, and the Ghost of Hamlet's Dad) in a book that starts with Shakespeare's original play, and then goes all over the place.<br /><br />What are you reading for the <a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-reading-challenge-for-2019.html">2019 Reading Challenge</a>?<br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Natascha Kucurs&nbsp;<span lang="EN-US">read <span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!286308~!6">A Room of One’s Own</a></i></span> by <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Woolf,%20Virginia%22">Virginia Woolf</a></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!286308~!6" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="322" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BUjW-FvHZWM/XIirv7dAiHI/AAAAAAAAB6g/J6niBC4K3lYLyOFWg2KqV77dHxuMCiaYgCLcBGAs/s200/Room.jpg" width="139" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If you are in the market for a light read then this is definitely <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> the book for you. A Room of One’s Own, written in 1929, explores aspects of gender equality through the lens of female fiction; it considers both the portrayal of females in works of fiction and the role of female as author. The extended essay based upon lecturers by Woolf at two Cambridge women’s colleges is written through the eyes of a fictional narrator Judith Shakespeare. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Judith, as her name suggests, is sibling of the famous, William Shakespeare. Woolf argues that the freedoms afforded to Shakespeare and those that share/d his gender - including access to education, time, space, legal privilege and financial stability - provide the necessary environment for beneficiaries to think, read and develop as intellectuals. In contrast, we find Judith’s story (and those of her sisters) bound to an existence of servitude and lack of privilege in which no such dreams of intellectual excellence will ever be realised. Unless, of course, they happen to find themselves with a room of one’s own.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">An interesting read while the thoughts of International Women’s Day are still fresh in our minds.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Non-fiction(ish),&nbsp;</span>820 WOO.</i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Sharon Bryan read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1169436~!6">To Be or Not to Be: A Choosable Path Adventure</a></i>, by Ryan North, <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Shakespeare,%20William%22">William Shakespeare</a> and You.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1169436~!6" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="317" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DU0LoADvwV4/XIisi_YGuxI/AAAAAAAAB6o/ETmh9rkzacEhRoMnTZfN7vYTpP6EpRDRgCLcBGAs/s200/ToBeOrNot.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This book is brilliant. Just straight up, undeniably brilliant. It takes the story of Hamlet and turns it into a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Choose Your Own Adventure</i> style romp. You pick a character at the beginning of the book and follow their path through a variety of possible adventures and endings that will lead you to some familiar places (if you know the play) but also some very unfamiliar places.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You can play as Hamlet, Ophelia or Hamlet Sr (the Ghost), and there are dozens of choices you can make as each. As Hamlet, you can choose the follow the play as Bill Shakespeare originally wrote it (boring!) or you can go off on a wild tangent and run away and become a pirate. As Hamlet Sr and Ophelia you will find it next to impossible to follow the original play. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">No matter how often I played the book as Ophelia, I could never find a path where she went mad and killed herself. You <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">could</i> play it so she faked her own death, ran off and became a highly trained assassin, which you must admit is much better. If you read Hamlet’s options in the book closely, there is an implication in his story lines that this is what happened to Ophelia, too. In fact, if you read the original Shakespearean play carefully, there’s no reason why you should assume this didn’t happen. We don’t see Ophelia die, after all, (Gertrude tells us what happened – but she might be lying) and while Laertes and Hamlet have a punch-up in her grave as she’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">allegedly</i> being buried, we never see her body…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Just saying, is all.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><i>Fiction, c820.71 NOR</i></span></div><br /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/qlZTASyRm1Y" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/qlZTASyRm1Y/reading-challenge-shakespearean-things.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sharon B)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/03/reading-challenge-shakespearean-things.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-1303342762938943809Mon, 11 Mar 2019 04:04:00 +00002019-03-13T16:38:14.578+10:00ChatFAQsstudent successSuccessful Students Ask Questions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--mHUVdmlZWw/XIXcuZIN8sI/AAAAAAAAB50/4Zx8X6J3Mccdw0oI8cldThRg2VrKQtpDQCLcBGAs/s1600/Successful%2BStudents%2BAsk%2BQuestions%2BSlide%2B%2528003%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="498" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--mHUVdmlZWw/XIXcuZIN8sI/AAAAAAAAB50/4Zx8X6J3Mccdw0oI8cldThRg2VrKQtpDQCLcBGAs/s400/Successful%2BStudents%2BAsk%2BQuestions%2BSlide%2B%2528003%2529.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />It's <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/events/2019/march/student-success-week">Student Success Week</a> here at JCU, and we'd just like to share our top tip for successful studies:<br /><br /><b>Ask Questions.</b><br /><br />As a student at JCU, you have access to all sorts of support services and highly skilled professionals who are able to help you find the answers you need. But first, you have to ask.<br /><br />At the library, we have a crack team of information professionals who can answer all sorts of questions about the information you need to find and reference for your assignments<br /><br /><i>Where can I <a href="https://libanswers.jcu.edu.au/faq/133274">find the best information</a> for my nursing assignment?</i> Ask a librarian.<br /><br /><i>How do I set out my <a href="https://libanswers.jcu.edu.au/faq/172226">reference list in APA</a>?</i> Ask a librarian.<br /><br /><i>Can I see <a href="https://libanswers.jcu.edu.au/faq/66504">past exams</a> for my subject?</i> Ask a librarian.<br /><br /><i>Can I get books when I'm <a href="https://libanswers.jcu.edu.au/faq/110223">off campus</a>?</i> Ask a librarian!<br /><br /><i>How can I find my <a href="https://libanswers.jcu.edu.au/faq/161499">username and password</a>?</i> Ask <a href="mailto:IThelpdesk@jcu.edu.au">IThelpdesk@jcu.edu.au</a>&nbsp;(but if you can't remember that, ask a librarian and we'll point you in the right direction).<br /><br /><b>Asking your librarians for help:</b><br /><br />On our <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/contact-us">contact page</a> you'll find half a dozen ways to get in contact with us.<br /><br />We operate a <b>Chat service</b> during our <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about/opening-hours">Services opening hours</a>, and you can normally talk to a librarian live during this time. Click on the "Chat" icon at the bottom of all our <a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/?b=p">Guides</a>,&nbsp;in the One Search results page, or on our contact page (and wherever else you find it). If you see the "Ask Us" button, you can leave us a question and we'll get back to you.<br /><br /><a href="https://libanswers.jcu.edu.au/">Our FAQs</a> are available 24/7, so you can always search for an answer. You can search our FAQs straight from <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library">the library's home page</a>, using the FAQs tab on our Search Box. If your question isn't already one of our FAQs, you can leave us a question. We'll respond to your question directly to you, and we might use it to make a new FAQ.<br /><br />And, of course, if you're in the neighbourhood, you can always come into the library during our service hours and ask us a question in person.<br /><br /><b>Asking questions is the best way to find answers. So ask a question today!</b><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/FNzrv-FNMnM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/FNzrv-FNMnM/successful-students-ask-questions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sharon B)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/03/successful-students-ask-questions.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-3188816498433390490Wed, 06 Mar 2019 23:30:00 +00002019-03-13T16:03:33.419+10:00Reading ChallengeReading Challenge - March: "Languages and Literature"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pVVFta3kREo/XH92OHeEQEI/AAAAAAAAB5o/6nPEnyR973wJNme1bmRkncg5CQPY71Y9gCLcBGAs/s1600/Languages1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="426" height="300" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pVVFta3kREo/XH92OHeEQEI/AAAAAAAAB5o/6nPEnyR973wJNme1bmRkncg5CQPY71Y9gCLcBGAs/s320/Languages1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Our <a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-reading-challenge-for-2019.html">Reading Challenge for 2019</a> spins into a new month with a new theme (and a new "bonus challenge").<br /><br /><b>The theme for March is "Languages and Literature."</b><br /><br />So you can read books about languages (check out the 400s) or books about literature (the 800s) or works <i>of</i>&nbsp;literature (also the 800s).<br /><br />If you wanted to read books about a language and then works of literature that were written <i>in</i>&nbsp;that language, that would be perfectly thematic. Or play with this theme however you like.<br /><br />Now, as per usual, the core challenge is to read as many books as you can this month which fit the theme in some way, shape or form. And, as per usual, there are "extra" challenges, in which we dare you (no - we <i>double dare</i>&nbsp;you) to read:<br /><ol><li>A book by an Australian author</li><li>A book by an author you've never read before</li><li>A work of fiction</li><li>A work of non-fiction</li></ol><br />And for this month's theme we have a bonus challenge:<br /><ol start="5"><li>Read a book that was originally written in a language other than English.</li></ol><div>It can still <i>be</i> in a language other than English, if you're comfortable reading it. Have fun!</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/-f_4ZW79Zdc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/-f_4ZW79Zdc/reading-challenge-march-languages-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sharon B)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/03/reading-challenge-march-languages-and.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-4279504459347451889Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:17:00 +00002019-03-06T08:28:05.242+10:00special collectionsJoin us in celebrating Ben Trupperbaumer's generous donation<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-teqSPDWc-l4/XH4oOShnHZI/AAAAAAAABdM/5vUHaMnp8DUmFCVZ7Whnsl_7DBBbxZI1wCLcBGAs/s1600/Ron%2Band%2BBen%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="907" data-original-width="680" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-teqSPDWc-l4/XH4oOShnHZI/AAAAAAAABdM/5vUHaMnp8DUmFCVZ7Whnsl_7DBBbxZI1wCLcBGAs/s640/Ron%2Band%2BBen%2B1.jpg" width="478" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ben Trupperbaumer signing his new Folio of prints with master printmaker, Ron McBurnie of Monsoon Publishing in Townsville. </i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>See our first exciting exhibition for 2019 in the Special Collections display cases on level 1 of the Mabo Library in Townsville this month as we celebrate Ben Trupperbaumer's recent donation.&nbsp; You won't regret taking the time to explore this artistic gift of great historical importance to North Queensland.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V4a6KDUpkto/XH4qplgLExI/AAAAAAAABdk/5yKOMlJ9AjM23FYTMzW1Y_MQCUaJMXIbQCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_6441_cropped_Ben.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="379" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V4a6KDUpkto/XH4qplgLExI/AAAAAAAABdk/5yKOMlJ9AjM23FYTMzW1Y_MQCUaJMXIbQCLcBGAs/s400/IMG_6441_cropped_Ben.jpg" width="245" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ben Trupperbaumer</i></td></tr></tbody></table>Artist, Gerhard Bentrupperbaumer was born in Bielefeld, West Germany, 1948.&nbsp; Between 1968-72 he studied art at the Kunsthochschule, Bielefeld.&nbsp; In 1973-74 he joined the German Volunteer Service abroad in Cameroon, West Africa, where he worked on a project to reintroduce traditional arts and crafts into the community.&nbsp; Further overseas experience followed with a period teaching in Kathmandu, where he met his future wife.&nbsp; On moving back to Joan’s home region at Mission Beach in 1979, he commenced exhibiting his artworks under the name Ben Trupperbaumer.&nbsp; He currently resides on the Atherton Tableland. <br /><br />Ben has given to Special Collections a group of original materials which represent both his art practice and his previous work as a North Queensland environmental activist.&nbsp; His wonderful donation consists of 3 intimately connected parts:<br /><b>1. A full set of the Newsletters of the MRCD: The Movement for Responsible Coastal Development </b>which was the first incorporated conservation group based in Mission Beach existing from 1990 – 1992.&nbsp; Ben was one of the founders and in support of the groups’ activities he created a series of original artist prints – wood cuts which were not only sold to raise funds but also featured on the cover of the group’s Newsletters as displayed here.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_TJ8Qp_sPWU/XH7vbywpT8I/AAAAAAAABd8/mrPyvTus-ewA3UPc5GJZIvl848LMkYVOgCLcBGAs/s1600/Newsletters%2Bimage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1170" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_TJ8Qp_sPWU/XH7vbywpT8I/AAAAAAAABd8/mrPyvTus-ewA3UPc5GJZIvl848LMkYVOgCLcBGAs/s640/Newsletters%2Bimage.jpg" width="609" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This page from the donated Print Folio shows the covers of all of the MRCD Newsletters and the Annual Report.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><b>2. A new Folio of nine woodcuts</b> made by Ben Trupperbaumer in support of the MRCD and produced by Monsoon Publishing beginning in 2016 under the guidance of master printmaker, Ron McBurnie.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FzGy6G_F8bo/XH7yOE-TWxI/AAAAAAAABeg/YITt7vw2I2YQqxf5-wNYdwg8XkfN7mHVACLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_7092.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FzGy6G_F8bo/XH7yOE-TWxI/AAAAAAAABeg/YITt7vw2I2YQqxf5-wNYdwg8XkfN7mHVACLcBGAs/s640/IMG_7092.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>One of the original artist prints from the new Folio with its corresponding woodblock in the foreground.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><b>3. The nine, unique woodblocks used to produce the 9 woodcut prints </b>featured in the new Folio. The woodblocks have been made from various Australian grown timbers including Sandalwood, Ebony and Gidgee.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R8n-d6tGHoA/XH7wQmBiE7I/AAAAAAAABeI/CrownGep49Uu69HJxysFYfpYULVYwVdpgCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_7088.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R8n-d6tGHoA/XH7wQmBiE7I/AAAAAAAABeI/CrownGep49Uu69HJxysFYfpYULVYwVdpgCLcBGAs/s640/IMG_7088.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the woodblocks created by Ben Trupperbaumer.</td></tr></tbody></table>Stay tuned for more posts about this wonderful donation during March.&nbsp; The exhibition is available during the <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about/opening-hours/opening-hours-for-eddie-koiki-mabo-library,-townsville" target="_blank">Mabo Library opening hours</a>.&nbsp; To access the Library's Special Collections talk to the library staff or send an email to specialcollections@jcu.edu.au<br /><span id="goog_1886952072"></span><span id="goog_1886952073"></span><br /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/H2Cn2Q8NfYQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/H2Cn2Q8NfYQ/join-us-in-celebrating-ben.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bronwyn)3http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/03/join-us-in-celebrating-ben.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-3621318183633837789Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:42:00 +00002019-03-05T14:42:54.524+10:00Book reviewsReading ChallengeReading Challenge Reviews: February's Last HurrahWe've had another guest review from one of the fabulous members of our JCU community! Dr Ro Hill has sent us a parcel of mini-reviews for books she read during February for our <a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-reading-challenge-for-2019.html">Reading Challenge</a>.<br /><br />Remember, we love getting your reviews, so please share them with us at <a href="mailto:library@jcu.edu.au">library@jcu.edu.au</a>. Please keep in mind that we prefer reviews for books that can be borrowed from a library in our region (especially if it's ours).<br /><br /><br /><b>Ro Hill read <i><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!289105~!6">I heard the owl call my name</a></i>, by <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Craven,%20Margaret%22">Margaret Craven</a>,&nbsp;<i><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1037656~!6">Emotions revealed</a></i> and <i><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!305837~!6">The Face of Man</a></i>, by <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Ekman,%20Paul%22">Paul Ekman</a>, and&nbsp;<i><a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/15037908?q&amp;versionId=17699081">Mindfulness with Breathing A Manual for Serious Beginners</a>,</i> by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu.</b><br /><br />For February I chose “understanding emotions” as the topic for the fact/fiction challenge. I read a fiction (<a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!289105~!6"><i>I Heard the Owl Call My Name</i></a>&nbsp;by Margaret Craven); &nbsp;two books of “fact” (<i><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1037656~!6">Emotions Revealed</a>&nbsp;</i>and&nbsp;<a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!305837~!6"><i>The Face of Man</i></a>&nbsp;by Paul Ekman); and one religious treatise (<a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/15037908?q&amp;versionId=17699081"><i>Mindfulness with Breathing AManual for Serious Beginners</i></a> by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu).<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!289105~!6" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="312" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oy-bxYtiDcE/XH3U_3e9t7I/AAAAAAAAB4I/_4htzM0oekEdsHH1PTz1xCvovxp1X0cLQCLcBGAs/s320/HeardTheOwl.jpg" width="199" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">So which is best for understanding emotions? All have strengths and weaknesses! OK, no surprises there.&nbsp; Margaret Craven’s wonderful book evokes deep understanding of a First Nations community in British Columbia just when the residential schools tragedy (Canada’s equivalent of the Stolen Generations) is in full swing. The beauty and wonder of the Tsawataineuk Tribe’s traditions of spiritual practices to care for emotions (and celebrate good times!) are counter-posed with the missionary’s (the central figure of the book) practical assistance with hospitals etc. The book is more hopeful for a reader now when we know the central message – that the Indian’s way of life is over – has turned out to be wrong…<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Paul Ekman’s <i>Emotions Revealed</i> takes you into a rigorous reductionist treatment of how the lips are pressed together when someone is angry and pulled backward towards the ears when fear is raging. It’s actually pretty interesting and helpful for people like me who are often challenged to understand how others are feeling.&nbsp; I’ve been practising more awareness of “seeing” people’s faces and using his ideas to better interpret emotions – definitely helpful. <i>The Faces of Man</i> is a collection of photographs from his field work with the Fore people back in 1967 which is/was the basis of the “proof” that emotions are expressed the same way in all cultures. Wonderful photos but terrible ethics...oh dear.&nbsp; The Fore don’t get a say at all. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Buddhist book on Mindfulness is all about how meditation can help you understand and regulate your own emotions. A practical guide with four stages, and four steps in each stage.&nbsp; Pretty good for pragmatic Westerners but probably not as useful as all the free tools available from the <a href="https://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/mindfulness/pages/default.aspx">Centre for Mindfulness</a> at the Uni of San Diego.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I realised I missed the Australian author this month… so will try to find two for March. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Cheers<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Ro<o:p></o:p></div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><div>I Heard the Owl Call My Name<i> by Margaret Craven (810 CRAV 1C IHE), and&nbsp;</i>Emotions Revealed<i>&nbsp;(</i><a class="normalBlackFont1" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="font-style: italic;" title="Item Information">152.4 EKM)&nbsp;</a><i>and </i>The Face of Man<i> (152.4 EKM T2), by Paul Ekman are available in our library.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Mindfulness with Breathing A Manual for Serious Beginners<i>, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu is available from a small number of libraries listed in </i><a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/15037908?q&amp;versionId=17699081" style="font-style: italic;">Trove</a><i>. It may be obtained using an </i><a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about/borrowing/borrow-from-other-libraries/interlibrary-loans-service" style="font-style: italic;">Interlibrary Loan</a><i>, if you wish to read it (fees apply), or you can purchase a copy from a number of online stores.</i></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/VEc1-6sAZt4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/VEc1-6sAZt4/reading-challenge-reviews-februarys.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sharon B)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/03/reading-challenge-reviews-februarys.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-5559572743946593287Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:37:00 +00002019-03-05T10:37:50.277+10:00DatabasesJCU Collection ServicesLibrary ResourcesJCU Databases 101You're new to JCU and you can't find the resources you need in <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?pn=1&amp;ho=t&amp;l=en-AU">OneSearch</a> or the <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/find/books-dvds-and-more/library-catalogue">catalogue?</a> <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?pn=1&amp;ho=t&amp;l=en-AU">OneSearch</a> does not index everything that the library subscribes to. Some <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/find/books-dvds-and-more/ebooks">ebooks</a> and <a href="https://br9xy4lf5w.search.serialssolutions.com/ejp/?libHash=BR9XY4LF5W#/?language=en-gb&amp;titleType=ALL">ejournals</a> can only be found by searching our <a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/az.php?q=&amp;select=Find+by+subject">Databases</a> pages.&nbsp; Check your subject <a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/?b=p">Libguide</a> for handy hints on how to use subject specific databases. Getting to know the databases and how to search them efficiently will save you time in the long run.<br /><br />Still stuck? Contact your friendly subject librarian. Their contact details can be found in the relevant subject <a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/?b=p">Libguide</a>.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3Lk3F0bFm8o/XHXsMNU3lnI/AAAAAAAAArY/ONVlblkhWR0rlP4VxwyWwdSQlDXd0P_dwCLcBGAs/s1600/Databases%2Blinks.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1049" height="228" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3Lk3F0bFm8o/XHXsMNU3lnI/AAAAAAAAArY/ONVlblkhWR0rlP4VxwyWwdSQlDXd0P_dwCLcBGAs/s400/Databases%2Blinks.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/JeTneJPJQzc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/JeTneJPJQzc/jcu-databases-101.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JCU Collections Services)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/03/jcu-databases-101.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-7336282866720336356Wed, 27 Feb 2019 03:49:00 +00002019-02-27T13:49:09.973+10:00Book reviewsReading ChallengeReading Challenge: Bird song, Bird-Brained Behaviour and Bird Tales<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="132" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ihgd9IsdCMg/XHXf8jom_eI/AAAAAAAAB3k/Jy_693flmMsEq0E0S6TdojOJjEYbsHzigCLcBGAs/s200/Male_and_female_superb_fairy_wren_Benjamint444_CCBY30.jpg" width="200" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9533396">Superb Fairy Wrens</a><br />by Benjamint444, <br />CC BY-SA 3.0</td></tr></tbody></table>Can you believe February is almost over already? Granted, it <i>is</i>&nbsp;the shortest month of the year, but it seemed shorter than usual this year.<br /><br />This means we're already at the end of our "<a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/reading-challenge-february-fact-and.html">Fact and Fiction</a>" theme for the <a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-reading-challenge-for-2019.html">2019 Reading Challenge</a>. This week has gone to the birds. Scott reviewed a book about song birds and the evolution of the species we know and love, while Sharon read a book of modern myths that delve into a number of bird-based stories. Brenda's choice of a self-help book was slightly less bird themed, but if you were creative enough you could probably shoe-horn it in somehow.<br /><br />Remember, the challenge is to read as many books as you can that fit (somehow) the theme of the month, making sure to read an Australian author, an author you haven't read before, a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction while you're at it. Happy reading!<br /><br /><br /><b>Scott Dale read <span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1226453~!6">Where Song Began: Australia’s Birds and How They Changed the World</a></i></span> by <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Low,%20Tim%22">Tim Low</a>.</span></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1226453~!6" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="278" data-original-width="181" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vzo5LHrcVa8/XHXT54xlD9I/AAAAAAAAB3Y/KOKcr7uhDO0mkVZB1GTqvRzvpUbfpWPBACLcBGAs/s200/WhereSongBegan.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I first heard about Tim Low ‘s book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where Song Began</i>, from my partner. Sarah was reading this book about Australia’s birds and was unable to go five minutes without sharing something with me: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Did you know that…? Guess how many … Listen to this! …”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I was pleased that someone was so excited by a book, slightly annoyed at being constantly interrupted, and determined to read <i>Where Song Began</i> for myself. So I did.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">This is a book about Australia’s birds, their evolution, and how they shape and are shaped by the environments in which they live. It’s a book about big ideas that had a lot of revelations for me about Australian fauna and flora. And it’s a fun read.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The prevailing thoughts about songbirds were that they originated in the Northern Hemisphere (just like Western science). Low presents the case for these birds as having Australian or Gondwanan origins – newer DNA techniques have helped with this.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">This is a very readable book for science people and non-science people alike. It’s interesting to learn how similar Papua New Guinea and Australia are, to learn about how intelligent and destructive parrots can be, and to see the connection between plant life and birdlife. I learned that some birds kidnap the young of other birds and put them to work, that it’s the accessible nectar that makes Australian birds so aggressive, and that pigeons have introduced a lot of plant life to Australia. When I go for walks these days I’m looking at the trees, watching the birds, spotting bits of lerp on leaves, and looking at everything in a new way.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Non-fiction, Australian author I haven't read before, </span></i><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i>598.0994 LOW</i></span></div><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Brenda read</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Malgun Gothic&quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=155NU8T315738.49273&amp;profile=t&amp;uri=link=3100006~!1753574~!3100001~!3100002&amp;aspect=basic_search&amp;menu=search&amp;ri=1&amp;source=~!horizon&amp;term=Get+out+of+your+own+way+%3A+overcoming+self-defeating+behavior+%2F&amp;index=ALLTITL">Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior</a></span></i></b></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Malgun Gothic&quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Malgun Gothic&quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">by Mark Goulston and Philip Goldberg.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Malgun Gothic&quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=155NU8T315738.49273&amp;profile=t&amp;uri=link=3100006~!1753574~!3100001~!3100002&amp;aspect=basic_search&amp;menu=search&amp;ri=1&amp;source=~!horizon&amp;term=Get+out+of+your+own+way+%3A+overcoming+self-defeating+behavior+%2F&amp;index=ALLTITL" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-09waRGyyXcM/XHXt5-lHzQI/AAAAAAAAB3w/JVUHnOZ6ifwZIBNm4YsTEyN0cyNQJBE9QCLcBGAs/s200/get-out-of-your-own-way.jpg" width="123" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Malgun Gothic&quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">It’s amazing what you find when you’re shelving books or just browsing the shelves. <i>Get Out of Your Own Way</i> is an easy to read self-help book by a New York psychiatrist. After many years counselling clients with similar issues, Goulston has written a book which examines 40 problems that affect the self, relationships and work and suggests a few simple strategies to deal with each one. There’s not a lot of depth or detail about each behaviour - this could be good or bad depending on your needs and the amount of time you have for reading. You can always explore individual problems more fully by searching One Search, the library catalogue or your favourite database from the <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library"><span style="color: windowtext;">library homepage</span></a></span></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Malgun Gothic&quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Malgun Gothic&quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">With chapters such as ‘Taking things personally’, ‘Saying yes when you want to say no” and ‘Procrastinating’, you’re sure to relate to some of the self-defeating behaviours described. I found the point-form summary at the end of each chapter a handy way to try and apply Goulston’s suggested remedies. If self-development is on your agenda for this year, <i>Get Out of Your Own Way </i>could help you on your journey.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Malgun Gothic&quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Non-Fiction, Author I haven’t read before, 158.1 GOU<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><br /><b>Sharon Bryan read <i><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!326181~!6">The Flying Emu and Other Australian Stories</a></i>, by <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Morgan,%20Sally%22">Sally Morgan</a>.</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!326181~!6" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1135" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0oOXMiZrRlU/XHXxCNYjZRI/AAAAAAAAB38/w7ajQv8s7tEK6sGcXsp7qoPcmsOQwdWtQCLcBGAs/s200/FlyingEmu.jpg" width="141" /></a></div>The Aboriginal people of Australia are well known for having some crackingly brilliant stories - particularly when it comes to origins. Ever wondered how those islands got there? Or why the kookaburra laughs? Or how why cranes dance in the morning mist? There's a traditional legend that sounds so much better than any "scientific" explanation.<br /><br />By why settle for stories that have been around for thousands of years if, like Sally Morgan (one of Australia's most beloved authors and artists), you've got some great stories of your own begging to be told?<br /><br />Sally's book presents a collection of new stories in the style of the old traditional tales. It covers origin stories like why emus don't fly (a bit of an Icarus theme, for that one) and where the first white man came from (a seriously scary fish), but also stories about lazy seagulls and odd-couple friendships between willie wagtails and kangaroos.<br /><br />This is a lovely book full of stories that have a sly sense of humour and a moral to the tale (without being preachy). Definitely one to add to your list.<br /><br /><i>Fiction, Australian author, 820.94 MOR(S)</i><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/8-9BXCoumvY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/8-9BXCoumvY/reading-challenge-bird-song-bird.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sharon B)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/reading-challenge-bird-song-bird.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-4529038244514833776Mon, 25 Feb 2019 02:53:00 +00002019-02-25T12:53:30.963+10:00Library spacesWelcome to Your Library<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aDGpoEw3Gyk/XHNV1MPmEfI/AAAAAAAAB3A/8Pjg-EXLiCchiDCZh47hrM5b5iKKcYXPACLcBGAs/s1600/eddieMaboLibrary.177.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aDGpoEw3Gyk/XHNV1MPmEfI/AAAAAAAAB3A/8Pjg-EXLiCchiDCZh47hrM5b5iKKcYXPACLcBGAs/s320/eddieMaboLibrary.177.jpg" width="320" /></a>The beginning of semester is a time for finding your feet and figuring out where everything is.<br /><br />Whether you are an on-campus student or if you can only visit the campus occasionally, you'll probably find yourself spending time in our libraries. Just to help you find your way around, here's a quick idea of what you'll be able to do in our buildings.<br /><br /><b>Borrow books, DVDs and more.</b><br /><br />Obviously a library has things you can borrow. In addition to books, we also have DVDs, CDs, sheet music and more. You'll need your student or staff card (it's also your library card) to check out anything you want to take out of the building.<br /><br />In addition to the main collection, where most of our borrowable material is held, we also have a Curriculum Collection (where all the best books are), reference collections, special collections and print journals. You can find yourself looking in the wrong place, so don't hesitate to ask any library staff for help. Take a look at the <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about/locations">location information</a> for your campus to find floor maps.<br /><br />The autoloans machines on the ground floor let you check out and return material for yourself. If you aren't sure how to use them, ask one of the friendly staff on the desk.<br /><br />If you're off-campus, remember to take a look at our <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about/off-campus-library-service">Off Campus Services</a> to see how you can borrow our physical material.<br /><br /><b>Study collaboratively, quietly or silently.</b><br /><br />The libraries in Cairns and Townsville have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about/locations/library-zones">zones</a> to help you find the best place to study for your needs. In all of the zones, we ask you to be mindful and respectful of the study needs of other students.<br /><br />The Ground Floor is a <b>collaborative</b> zone, where you can work with groups on projects.<br /><br />The First Floor is a <b>quiet</b> zone - you can still talk, but keep your voice down. This is a space that is shared by a large number of students, so it's important to be mindful of the other users and try to make sure your conversations can only be heard by the people you are talking to.<br /><br />The Second Floor (the top floor) is a <b>silent</b> zone. Keep this space free from conversations, switch your phone to silent (and take any phone calls downstairs) and turn down the volume of your headphones so that your neighbours can't hear the noise spill-over.<br /><br />You can book <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about/group-study-rooms">group study spaces</a> in each library, depending on availability.<br /><br /><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cl6b08K_-Xg/XHNXEQEikbI/AAAAAAAAB3M/_nuaMohdKes0tGXuSLdMbX24wxw1cLxkQCLcBGAs/s1600/eddieMaboLibrary.143.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cl6b08K_-Xg/XHNXEQEikbI/AAAAAAAAB3M/_nuaMohdKes0tGXuSLdMbX24wxw1cLxkQCLcBGAs/s200/eddieMaboLibrary.143.jpg" width="133" /></a><b>Use our computers</b><br /><br />We have computers in different areas&nbsp;spread&nbsp;across the library buildings. Some are in the silent zone, so make sure you respect the needs of others studying in this area. Please remember that all students should have fair access to the computers, so if you are going to be leaving your workstation for more than a few minutes, save your work and log out of the computer to give another student a chance to use it.<br /><br />When using any of the computers at the university, remember to save your work often, and to something like a USB drive or cloud storage. Accidents happen and the computers time out after a period of inactivity, and you don't want to lose hours of work because you forgot to hit "save" before you went to the water fountain.<br /><br /><b>Use the kitchenette.</b><br /><br />Both libraries have kitchenettes located outside the building, providing boiling water and microwaves. Please remember that these are shared facilities and take good care of them.<br /><br />If you are using the kitchenette to heat food that might be distracting to other students (something with a strong smell, for example), please eat that food at the tables near the kitchenette (or in the cafe space in the Mabo Library in Townsville). Most areas of the buildings are "cold food only".<br /><br /><b>Be excellent to each other.</b><br /><br />We like to think of the library as a community hub, which gives everyone the opportunity to be part of one big community. The more excellent we are to each other, the more wonderful the library is. So help us create a welcoming, supportive space filled with welcoming and supportive people.<br /><br />And remember, the library staff are here to help, so if you need anything, just ask.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/SU29NhHppec" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/SU29NhHppec/welcome-to-your-library.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sharon B)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/welcome-to-your-library.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-3351551849646066418Thu, 21 Feb 2019 07:40:00 +00002019-02-22T13:55:01.986+10:00Book reviewsReading ChallengeReading Challenge Reviews: Houses and HomesOur <a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-reading-challenge-for-2019.html">2019 Reading Challenge</a> certainly offers some flexibility - especially <a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/reading-challenge-february-fact-and.html">February's theme</a> of "Fact and Fiction."<br /><br />The aim of the game is to read as many books as you can in a month which fit the theme, and we think you could probably have a harder time working out what <b>doesn't</b>&nbsp;find February's theme, rather than what does. It's a good thing, then, that the challenge makes things at least a little bit challenging by insisting you tick a few boxes every month:<br /><br />A Book by an Australian Author; A Book by an Author You Haven't Read Before; A Fiction Book; A Non-Fiction Book.<br /><br />We have two memoirs for you today. The intrepid&nbsp;Theresa Petray has once again taken us up on our request for reviews from our library patrons, and she's brought us a book from a woman who spent time in the White House. Sharon also read a memoir by a woman who lived in a house, but under decidedly different circumstances.<br /><br /><br /><div><b>Sharon Bryan read&nbsp;<i><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1646412~!6">Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic</a></i>, by Alison Bechdel.</b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1646412~!6" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1068" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wx_xUIGooHA/XG5Hv6EDufI/AAAAAAAAB2M/08XHayxNxL0RJHmuPRajw0UcZ0VCmFzUgCLcBGAs/s200/FunHome.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><div>I'm calling this a book by an author I haven't read before, even though technically I read this author's work last year. It was an extract from this book in an anthology of creative non-fiction. When I saw the complete book pop up on our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/find/books-dvds-and-more/new-book-list">New Books</a>&nbsp;list a couple of weeks ago, I snaffled it for this month's challenge.</div><div><br /></div><div>This book is one of those glorious things that usually get called a "graphic novel", but is actually a "graphic memoir". Alison Bechdel (whose comic strip&nbsp;<i>Dykes to Watch Out For</i>&nbsp;introduced the Bechdel test)&nbsp;takes us on a visual journey through her childhood and early adulthood using a one-colour palate. Her distinctive style of line drawings coloured with blue wash manages to draw you in (pardon the pun) in a way that text alone or even full-colour images would be hard-pressed to manage.</div><div><br /></div><div>The book has an interesting approach to story-telling and memoir. Each chapter essentially covers the same period of time, retelling the same core story over and over again, but different details are revealed and different aspects are brought into focus. In doing so, things become more detailed, but less clear. By the end of the first chapter, you are certain that Alison's childhood was unhappy and her relationship with her father was estranged when he died. By the end of the last chapter, you aren't so sure. Her relationship with her father was certainly strained, and she never seems to be sure how she feels about him (or her mother, for that matter), but everything is far more nuanced.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's a story that encompasses literature, drama, funeral homes, closeted (and open) homosexuality and house restoration. It touches on subjects like getting one's first period, masturbation, lesbian relationships, gender roles and gay activism. It's the kind of "comic book" you wouldn't leave around for your kids to read unless you were ready to have some&nbsp;<i>very</i>&nbsp;grown up conversations with them. And it's the story of a girl who really just wished her father would say he loved her and was proud of her. It's hard to pin down - and that's partly why it's hard to put down.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Non-fiction/memoir, author I haven't read before, 741.5973 BEC</i></div><br /><br /><b>Theresa Petray read <i><a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/becoming-9780241334140">Becoming</a>,</i> by Michelle Obama.</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/becoming-9780241334140" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T_JOmjIVWNA/XG4lgCtX9eI/AAAAAAAAB2A/474ZAhXB6BINP8qkTRQ_kPYJE9N_lHA_wCLcBGAs/s200/becoming.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><i>Becoming</i> is Michelle Obama’s memoir, and she uses it to tell the facts about her life, addressing some of the fictions that spread about someone when they enter politics - especially if they don’t look like most people in politics look. Obama explains her childhood, her career, falling in love with Barack, dealing with his entry into political life, and living in the White House. She even speaks with some honesty about the attacks on her husband, including those by Trump. She maintains some grace in those discussions, and throughout her memoir.<br /><br />Becoming feels honest. It’s written candidly, accessible but without glossing over important issues like race, inequality, gun violence, life chances, privilege, hard work, and good luck. Of course, all memoirs are stories - they are deliberately constructed to portray a certain kind of factuality, and I expect hardcore Obama detractors will read a lot of this memoir as Fake News. But as Obama says, she sees “the value in our story, in my story, in the larger story of our country. Even when it’s not pretty or perfect. Even when it’s more real than you want it to be. Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own” (p.xi).<br /><br /><i>Non-fiction, new-to-me author, check your local library.</i><br /><div><br /></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/d7K2TC5ANd0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/d7K2TC5ANd0/reading-challenge-reviews-houses-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sharon B)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/reading-challenge-reviews-houses-and.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-2749250544877839680Mon, 18 Feb 2019 03:01:00 +00002019-02-18T09:22:11.438+10:00OweekWelcome to O Week, Study Period 1 2019!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cS9-9FAjKAI/XGYpnRnFIqI/AAAAAAAAB1k/KMsw-MzwoFkBu3SyCU4P-Y-hsfxx2AnawCLcBGAs/s1600/Library2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="133" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cS9-9FAjKAI/XGYpnRnFIqI/AAAAAAAAB1k/KMsw-MzwoFkBu3SyCU4P-Y-hsfxx2AnawCLcBGAs/s200/Library2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>First Semester O Week at JCU runs from the 18th to the 22nd of February, and it's a time for getting yourself organised before lectures start in Week One.<br /><br />Albert Einstein reportedly said, "The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library," and he was reasonably smart, so we tend to agree with him. We'd like to expand on his list a little, so here is our "must know" list for O Week:<br /><br /><b>1. Know <a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/infolit1/jculibraries">where the library is</a> and what services are available.</b><br /><b><br /></b>The library buildings in Townsville and Cairns are home to several key services:<br /><ul><li><a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about">The Librarians</a> will help you with researching and referencing for your assignments. You can also come for help with sorting out your <b>passwords</b> and setting up your <b>WiFi</b>. Our friendly InfoHelp Rovers can help you with basic IT questions.</li><li><a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/students/learning-centre">The Learning Centre</a> can provide advice for writing your assignments, taking exams and managing your time effectively. They also provide support for developing your English and academic writing skills.</li><li><a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/student-equity-and-wellbeing">Student Equity and Wellbeing</a> provide support to help keep you survive and thrive at university. Their services include <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/student-equity-and-wellbeing/accessability">Accessability</a>, which is a must-know if you have any short or long-term health conditions which may impact on your studies.</li></ul><div><b>2. Know what's available off campus.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Can't come into the library? Studying off campus? The library will still be your best friend for researching and referencing assignments. Almost everything we have can be searched from the box on our <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library">home page</a>, and the majority of our resources are available online.</div><div><ul><li>Check out your <a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/?b=s">Subject Guides</a> to see what resources are best for your discipline.</li><li>Our <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about/off-campus-library-service">Off Campus services</a> is available to anyone located more than 50 kilometres from the Townsville or Cairns libraries (some services are only available in Australia).</li><li>Our <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/infohelp">chat service</a> lets you talk to a librarian during our opening hours, no matter where you are.,</li><li>Our <a href="https://libanswers.jcu.edu.au/index.php">FAQs</a> can help you find answers even when the library's closed.</li></ul><div><b>3. Get skilled up with some training.</b></div></div><div><ul><li>We run <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/learn/workshops">workshops</a> in O Week and during the semester that will help you get on top of your assignments.</li><li>We have <a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/?b=p">online guides and training</a>&nbsp;which cover everything we look at in our workshops and more.</li><li>The <a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/roadtrip">Info Skills Road Trip</a> is a self-paced series of online training modules that will help you learn how to research information for your assignments, evaluate what you find and reference it.</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/roadtrip"><img border="0" data-original-height="85" data-original-width="975" height="54" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PxR5jFo3Kxc/XGYeP1p7upI/AAAAAAAAB1M/nSKp6V8Zw504k-7KAfnjspJuXpzqbJvVgCLcBGAs/s640/InfoSkillsmod1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span id="goog_1020162848"></span><span id="goog_1020162849"></span>4. Join in the fun</b><br /><br />We like to think of the library as a community, not just a resource.<br /><br /><ul><li><a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/search/label/Reading%20Challenge">Follow along</a> with our <a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-reading-challenge-for-2019.html">Reading Challenge</a>.</li><li>Keep an eye out for our <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/events">events</a>.</li><li>Follow us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/JCULibrary">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/JCULibrary">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jcu_libraryinthetropics">Instagram</a> (and all that <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about/library-contact-details/library-news,-social-media,-suggestions-and-feedback">social media</a> stuff), and subscribe to this Blog.</li></ul></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/KqN2VbMffvc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/KqN2VbMffvc/welcome-to-first-semester-o-week-2019.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sharon B)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/welcome-to-first-semester-o-week-2019.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-6081659741024293760Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:00:00 +00002019-02-18T09:00:03.259+10:00collectionLibrary finesTownsvilleTownsville Floods and your Library items<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-AU</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> 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imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1039" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6aRPGn7LAg0/XGZKUfpKWkI/AAAAAAAANuk/qukwiP1dB04bpLO6QSE_iTOwlsY7DGWTwCLcBGAs/s320/000081-0026-000083.png" width="207" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The recent rain and flood event in Townsville has wreaked havoc on our town and affected many people. If you have library items that have been damaged by the floods, please bag them up securely and bring them into the library. If they have come into contact with any contaminated water, or were lost during the floods, please contact the library and we will assess your situation and library account on a case by case basis. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Our thoughts are with all staff, students and community members who were affected by this devastating natural disaster. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">JCU Library Team </span></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/Xuxoq7mjoXs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/Xuxoq7mjoXs/townsville-floods-and-your-library-items.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shannon Harmon)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/townsville-floods-and-your-library-items.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-8781577747938780208Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:31:00 +00002019-02-14T10:31:28.495+10:00Book reviewsReading ChallengeReading Challenge Reviews: Dangerous Boys<a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/reading-challenge-february-fact-and.html">February's theme</a> for this years <a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-reading-challenge-for-2019.html">Reading Challenge</a> is "Fact and Fiction". The cynics might say that covers every book in the history of mankind. They are probably right.<br /><br />The books we reviewed this week are definitely factual. Margaret tackled a book that tries to set the facts straight about one of Australia's iconic "bad boys", Ned Kelly. Many rumours abound about the fate of Mr Kelly's remains, but Craig Cormik's volume tries to sort fact from fiction.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Sharon reviewed a book that is literally about facts - it is a collection of facts in the grand tradition of encyclopedias and how-to books of yesteryear.<br /><br />What have you read?<br /><br /><br /><b>Margaret Morris read <i><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1257316~!6">Ned Kelly Under the Microscope [electronic resource] : Solving the Forensic Mystery of Ned Kelly's Remains</a></i>, edited by <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;fvf=ContentType,Book%20%2F%20eBook,f&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Cormick,%20Craig%22">Craig Cormick</a>.</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1257316~!6" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="867" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-REv_6HzbKs4/XGOVIYm0kFI/AAAAAAAAB0s/A8UDDPUmYNIMoLBeVU09GoesKSkcd-xjgCLcBGAs/s200/NedKellyMicroscope.jpg" width="138" /></a></div>When Ned Kelly was buried in the Old Melbourne Gaol cemetery, rumours emerged of Kelly's skull being used as a paperweight by staff.&nbsp; For a time it was displayed at the gaol museum, from where it was eventually stolen in 1978.<br /><br />His body also went missing. After being transferred to a graveyard at Pentridge Prison in 1929, its exact location became unknown until 2002, when the bones of prisoners were uncovered at the site during redevelopment. This triggered a larger excavation that, in 2009, uncovered many more coffins. One of them was likely to be Ned Kelly's body.<br /><br />Publicity around the search to identify his body led to the return of the skull – and a long scientific process to try to identify and reunite Ned Kelly's remains.&nbsp; Anthropology, odontology, DNA studies, metallurgical analysis of the Kelly gang's armour, and archaeological digs at Pentridge Prison and Glenrowan are all covered in this text.&nbsp; It is illustrated throughout with photographs taken during the forensic investigation and supplemented with historical images.&nbsp; It also includes police perspectives on Ned Kelly. DNA taken from the bones were later matched with that of a living descendant, Leigh Olver of Melbourne, the great-grandson of Kelly's sister, Ellen.<br /><br />The author won the 2014 Australian Science Communicator's Unsung Hero of Science Communication award.&nbsp; This book was the fourth one he had published that year.&nbsp; Nearly 400 books have been written about Ned Kelly his untimely death.&nbsp; Cormick asks in the Preface “Do we really need another Ned Kelly book?” His answer was “as long as it has something new to say”.&nbsp;<br /><br /><i>Australian author, fact, non-fiction, ebook with unlimited access</i><br /><br /><br /><b>Sharon Bryan read <i><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!678190~!6">The Dangerous Book for Boys</a></i>&nbsp;(Australian Edition), by <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Iggulden,%20Conn%22">Conn</a> and <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Iggulden,%20Hal%22">Hal Iggulden</a>.</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!678190~!6" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Jtq1QhfTBi4/XGOVRd2T3oI/AAAAAAAAB0w/0CVpGtBqUF86QwaPhagAvRNSKvxwC3WagCLcBGAs/s200/Dangerous.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>When I was a kid, whenever we had time in the school library, no matter what I was supposed to be doing there I would eventually gravitate to one of the extreme ends. You'd often find me up in the 900s, looking at history and geography (I loved books with maps in them, in particular), or I'd be down in the 030s, pouring through the encyclopaediae and fact books. Oh, yes, there's an entire section of the Dewey Decimal system dedicated to collections of facts.<br /><br />World Books and Encyclopaedia Britannica were my go-to books. But then, I <i>am</i>&nbsp;the girl who was given a set of Charlie Brown 'Cyclopedias for my birthday one year. Comics and random facts - is it any wonder I became a librarian when I grew up?<br /><br /><i>The Dangerous Book for Boys</i> is very much the kind of book I would have devoured as a child. It is full of facts and "how to" information. You can find out about the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the kings and queens of England and Scotland, the Laws of Cricket and how to make a bow and arrow. There are instructions for navigating by the stars, a whole chapter on insects and spiders, and plans for making a go-kart. There's even a couple of sections on grammar, explaining parts of speech and sentence construction. There's a chapter on pirates with a diagram of pirate flags, for crying out loud! It's like they wrote this book <i>for</i>&nbsp;me.<br /><br />It's a glorious book, and any kid (of any age) worth their salt would spend hours trawling through it.<br /><br />So, of course, I'm well annoyed at the "For Boys" bit, and the chapters that are titled things like "Five Knots Every Boy Should Know". Just like I'm quite annoyed by the chapter on girls. It's quite short, and basically involves one key piece of advice: "just get them into a conversation about themselves."<br /><br />Although, I do agree with this one:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Avoid being vulgar. Excitable bouts of wind-breaking will not endear you to a girl, just to pick one example." (127)</blockquote>Fortunately, girls have been reading things "for boys" from time immemorial. Boys are less willing to read things titled "for girls", though, which is why I've long harboured the desire to write a book full of sport, action, adventure and science and call it "the girly book of girly things." Just because.<br /><br /><i>Non-fiction, c032 IGG, author I haven't read before.</i><br /><br /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/PYe_SoQMgWw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/PYe_SoQMgWw/reading-challenge-reviews-dangerous-boys.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sharon B)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/reading-challenge-reviews-dangerous-boys.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-1922153384844231942Wed, 13 Feb 2019 23:28:00 +00002019-02-14T13:00:19.011+10:00DisplaysEventsLibrary Lovers' Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pBJU91vWJUU/XGSkTeVSNXI/AAAAAAAADuM/M3zTTkM0lZwiIFY0Lm8QdvOC6ewvx5sWgCLcBGAs/s1600/LLD%2B2019%2Bwebsite%2Bbanner_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="1500" height="204" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pBJU91vWJUU/XGSkTeVSNXI/AAAAAAAADuM/M3zTTkM0lZwiIFY0Lm8QdvOC6ewvx5sWgCLcBGAs/s640/LLD%2B2019%2Bwebsite%2Bbanner_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Happy <a href="https://www.alia.org.au/news/17946/library-lovers%E2%80%99-day-2019" target="_blank">Library Lovers' Day</a>! February 14 is a day for us to celebrate what we love about libraries. We're sharing the love with displays in both the Townsville and Cairns libraries. If you're in the Cairns library, we'd love you to share your favourite book with us by filling out the flyer for our display - or perhaps you could write a review for the <a href="http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-reading-challenge-for-2019.html" target="_blank">Reading Challenge</a>? If you're feeling truly inspired, you could enter the <a href="https://www.alia.org.au/news/18061/library-lovers%E2%80%99-day-story-writing-competition-2019" target="_blank">flash fiction competition</a> on the theme, 'There was love to be found in the library...'.<br /><br />We wish all our patrons a very happy Library Lovers' Day and look forward to seeing you soon.<br /><br /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/x44_BA1BAWs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/x44_BA1BAWs/library-lovers-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Brenda)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/library-lovers-day.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-155395397122605670Wed, 13 Feb 2019 06:13:00 +00002019-02-13T16:13:01.557+10:00Required TextbooksFind your textbooks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VSyROnHX7jw/XGO0uSikeSI/AAAAAAAADt8/gENjC99CjK8_I8E1pQHqM8b7E4p_5fuQwCLcBGAs/s1600/Textbooks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="800" height="167" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VSyROnHX7jw/XGO0uSikeSI/AAAAAAAADt8/gENjC99CjK8_I8E1pQHqM8b7E4p_5fuQwCLcBGAs/s200/Textbooks.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Do you need to find which textbooks you require for your subjects? Your required textbook should be in your subject outline, located in LearnJCU.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Textbook lists for JCU subjects are often provided to the Co-op book shop and can be searched on the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.coop.com.au/" style="background-color: white; color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">Co-op&nbsp;</a><a href="https://www.coop.com.au/" style="background-color: white; color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">book shop website</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">&nbsp;by clicking the Textbooks button to get to the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.coop.com.au/textbook/search/" style="background-color: white; color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">textbook search</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, filter to JCU Townsville or Cairns campus, select the semester and then the subject code.&nbsp;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Co-op Bookshop is open from 9:00am - 3:00pm in Cairns and 9:00am - 5:00pm in Townsville.</span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/q8WqCH5p3yM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/q8WqCH5p3yM/find-your-textbooks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Brenda)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/find-your-textbooks.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-6653641961780667505Fri, 08 Feb 2019 02:35:00 +00002019-02-11T08:15:57.836+10:00Book reviewsReading ChallengeReading Challenge Reviews: Religion and Romance<div>The Reading Challenge theme for this month, <b>Fact and Fiction, </b>allows you to read just about anything. If you're looking for ideas from the library collection, you'll find some great fiction in the 800s and factual books on every subject on the rest of the shelves. Scott got hooked on a religion that could easily be fact, and Brenda read a story that cleverly combines real events with fictional characters. What did you read?<br /><br /></div><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oqgCP_XaR4E/XFuWzo6JjAI/AAAAAAAADtI/Z1r3M9SvXPEJ5-ZDPUTIMYaGRV0m_kqTQCLcBGAs/s1600/Cat%2527s%2Bcradle.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oqgCP_XaR4E/XFuWzo6JjAI/AAAAAAAADtI/Z1r3M9SvXPEJ5-ZDPUTIMYaGRV0m_kqTQCLcBGAs/s200/Cat%2527s%2Bcradle.jpg" /></a><b>Scott Dale read <a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=ML4950557520X.56706&amp;menu=search&amp;aspect=power&amp;npp=10&amp;ipp=20&amp;spp=20&amp;profile=t&amp;ri=&amp;index=.TW&amp;term=cat%27s+cradle&amp;oper=AND&amp;x=13&amp;y=7&amp;aspect=power&amp;index=AW&amp;term=Vonnegut&amp;oper=AND&amp;index=.JW&amp;term=&amp;oper=AND&amp;index=AW&amp;term=&amp;ultype=&amp;uloper=%3D&amp;ullimit=&amp;ultype=&amp;uloper=%3D&amp;ullimit=&amp;sort=">Cat’s Cradle</a> by <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Kurt%20Vonnegut%22">Kurt Vonnegut</a></b> <br /><br />In December of last year, I read a book of essays by Vonnegut called <a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!89018~!6">Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons: Opinions</a> (read that review <a href="http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2018/12/reading-challenge-week-49-book-of-non.html">here</a>). Three of those words were reported to come from one of his earlier novels, Cat’s Cradle. I read Cat’s Cradle and discovered that the words describe aspects of a fictional religion, written in the language of a fictional country. <br /><br />Cat’s Cradle was typed and set in the 1960s. The narrator, John, sets about compiling a book about what important Americans had been doing the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. John’s research leads him to speak to one of the bomb’s creators, Dr Hoenikker, and his children. John discovers that Dr Hoenikker also created a substance called ice-nine which enables water to freeze at something close to room temperature. <br /><br />The fictional religion comes from the fictional country San Lorenzo, which is situated somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. This is a country ruled viciously by their President with minor crimes punishable by the hook; a cruel and painful death sentence. San Lorenzo is also home to Bokonon and the religion he founded, Bokononism. This is an outlawed religion in San Lorenzo, with followers under threat of the hook. Of course, the entire island practices Bokononism. This outlawed religion’s scripture comes in the form of Calyspsos (written by Bokonon himself) that are both lyrical and cynical. It is a great made up religion. <br /><br />With Cat’s Cradle, Vonnegut was focusing on the human relationship with science, the militarisation of scientific “discoveries”, and what that can mean for all of us. Vonnegut’s focus on this is not surprising considering the Cold War era in which the book was written (the <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=%22Cuban%20Missile%20Crisis%22">Cuban Missile Crisis</a> took place a year prior to publication). <br /><br />I enjoyed this book very much – so will anyone who enjoys a good ol’ science fiction satire. <br /><br /><i> Fiction, 810 VON 1C CAT</i><br /><br /><br /><b>Brenda Carter read <a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!279972~!6">Captain Corelli’s Mandolin</a> by <a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1549508438TFO.57217&amp;profile=t&amp;uri=link=3100015~!409308~!3100001~!3100002&amp;aspect=basic_search&amp;menu=search&amp;ri=3&amp;source=~!horizon&amp;term=De+Berni%60eres%2C+Louis%2C+1954-&amp;index=PAUTHOR">Louis De Berni`eres</a></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0yq2ZCIs0o4/XFvTN2-idPI/AAAAAAAADtY/WoU27hRKoJ43pLPB-Q_P8IYfV6nq9ci1gCLcBGAs/s1600/Captain%2BCorelli%2527s%2BMandolin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="250" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0yq2ZCIs0o4/XFvTN2-idPI/AAAAAAAADtY/WoU27hRKoJ43pLPB-Q_P8IYfV6nq9ci1gCLcBGAs/s200/Captain%2BCorelli%2527s%2BMandolin.jpg" width="129" /></a></b></div><b></b><i><br /></i><i>Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides… That is just being ‘in love’ which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. </i><br /><br /><i>Captain Corelli’s Mandolin</i> ticks many boxes for this month’s Challenge. It’s a fiction book based on fact by an author I haven’t read before and, as an added bonus, contains multiple love stories for Library Lover’s Day. <br /><br />The story is set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War. Like many memorable novels, it connects a small set of characters and their particular dramas within a broad sweep of history. Its 73 short chapters move rapidly between different characters, historical as well as invented, exploring different aspects of social history. <i>Captain Corelli's Mandolin</i> explores many varieties of love. We see the initial lust-based love between Pelagia and Mandras, which burns out as a result of the war; the slow-burning love between Pelagia and the mandolin-playing Italian Captain Corelli, despite their political enmity; the nurturing love, based on love and respect between Pelagia and her doctor-father, Iannis, and the heroic, homosexual love that influences Carlo’s feelings and actions towards his fellow soldiers. Most of all, the novel exposes the horrors, hardships and futility of war in this idyllic place. <br /><br /><i>Captain Corelli’s Mandolin</i> works on many levels, as a love story, a war story and a deconstruction of just what determines the facts that make it into the history books. <br /><br /><i>Fiction, Fact, An author you haven’t read before, 820 DEBE 1C CAP</i><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/Xqw0ARQkdHg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/Xqw0ARQkdHg/reading-challenge-reviews-religion-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Brenda)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/reading-challenge-reviews-religion-and.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-2679632097017630011Tue, 05 Feb 2019 02:35:00 +00002019-02-05T12:35:36.365+10:00Reading ChallengeReading Challenge February: Fact and Fiction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q-73KLPvQjQ/XFj1UqxYeaI/AAAAAAAADso/43e2zs9IWbkYAsto3Hs4BVOyeEZUieZvwCLcBGAs/s1600/fact%2Band%2Bficton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1455" data-original-width="1600" height="181" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q-73KLPvQjQ/XFj1UqxYeaI/AAAAAAAADso/43e2zs9IWbkYAsto3Hs4BVOyeEZUieZvwCLcBGAs/s200/fact%2Band%2Bficton.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Our <a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-reading-challenge-for-2019.html">Reading Challenge for 2019</a> is to read as many books as you can within a particular month which 'fit' a particular theme. Of course, how the books you read fit the theme is all a matter of interpretation.<br /><br />February's theme is “Fact and Fiction”. What does that mean? It could be:<br /><ul><li>a fiction book that is based on fact</li><li>a book that alternates between narrative and non-fiction</li><li>non-fiction expressed in narrative form</li></ul><div>Failing any of the above, you could read a factual (non-fiction) book and a fiction book. If one is by an Australian author and the other by an author you haven't read before, you will have completed the requirements for this month's Challenge!<br /><br />Stay tuned for our first reviews for the month - we look forward to receiving yours!</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/Xr2uf9P_Ie4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/Xr2uf9P_Ie4/reading-challenge-february-fact-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Brenda)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/reading-challenge-february-fact-and.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-4361253697945487257Mon, 04 Feb 2019 05:24:00 +00002019-02-04T15:25:16.403+10:00eJournalsjournalswritingSūdō Journal - Issue 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fGzmH4Tuhr8/XFfMAZzqJlI/AAAAAAAADsc/813AQK-bYDwdRzM7-71aiof8Dddejda8QCLcBGAs/s1600/Typewriter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fGzmH4Tuhr8/XFfMAZzqJlI/AAAAAAAADsc/813AQK-bYDwdRzM7-71aiof8Dddejda8QCLcBGAs/s320/Typewriter.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Latin for 'I sweat,'&nbsp;<i><a href="https://sudojournal.com/latest-issue/" target="_blank">Sūdō</a></i> is a new journal produced by a small team of dedicated JCU postgraduates working in the fields of English Literature, Creative Writing, Art and Social Science. The journal was instigated by&nbsp;</span>Wayne Bradshaw, a PhD candidate in English literature in Townsville. The cessation of&nbsp;<i>LiNQ </i>in 2016<i>&nbsp;</i>meant that<i>&nbsp;</i>North Queensland no longer had a dedicated literary journal. In Bradshaw's words,<br /><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Sūdō&nbsp;aims to "refract the entire world through ... an undeniably northern lens.&nbsp;In an age of militancy and ideological puritanism, we have devoted ourselves to being militantly anti-militant. We do not pursue the regional, but covet the interesting. We are a hot, hard stone flung in the eye of the cultural cringe.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>The first issue of&nbsp;<i>Sūdō </i>contains nineteen fascinating and thought provoking pieces on the theme, Blood, Sweat and Tears. The journal's <a href="https://sudojournal.com/" target="_blank">website</a> also has links to useful resources for writers, a blog and submission requirements for future issues.</div><div><br /><div></div><div><br /></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/yx6LtfRoOr0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/yx6LtfRoOr0/sudo-journal-issue-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Brenda)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/02/sudo-journal-issue-1.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-554249351144598010Tue, 29 Jan 2019 03:54:00 +00002019-01-29T13:54:31.526+10:00Book reviewsReading ChallengeReading Challenge Reviews: The last legOur travels in January are sadly coming to an end. Of course you can still read books about travel and geography during the year but you should probably be preparing for Februrary's Challenge theme - Fact and Fiction. We're not quite sure what that means yet so in the meantime, sit back and enjoy our final sojourns, including a review from our guest reviewer, Theresa!&nbsp;We don't have the specific novel she reviewed, but you can find the audio book in the <a href="https://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/facilities-and-recreation/libraries">Townsville</a> City Library.<br /><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><b>Theresa Petray read <i>The Little Snake</i> by A.L. Kennedy.</b><br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-soHMSFhWtgQ/XE-irQ5mUxI/AAAAAAAADr4/HVPdjeK7u2AKhTN_J28auWCp8luoLJ5dACLcBGAs/s1600/The%2Blittle%2Bsnake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="250" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-soHMSFhWtgQ/XE-irQ5mUxI/AAAAAAAADr4/HVPdjeK7u2AKhTN_J28auWCp8luoLJ5dACLcBGAs/s200/The%2Blittle%2Bsnake.jpg" width="125" /></a>The Little Snake is a gorgeous tale of a girl, Mary, and a magical golden snake, Lanmo. The story <br />follows Mary as she grows up, goes on a big journey and grows old, and also Lanmo as he learns love. Lanmo is a snake who is responsible for death, and he travels through all the lands in the world to do his job. He notes, though, “that he would have been much busier had it not been for humans helping him with his work”. As an outsider, Lanmo is able to notice things like this about humans that we take for granted about ourselves.<br /><br />The writing is delicious, with descriptions and sentences that made me re-read them just to enjoy them again. Like this description of the city where Mary grows up:<br /><br /><i>'This city seems to want birds and not people. It is covered in edges and ledges and nooks and crooks for birds to enjoy and it is full of food scraps that are small enough for beaks. It was built by people, but it would prefer birds’. And this is often true of cities. They need people to build them, but they prefer birds. This can make them sad places</i>.<br /><br />A surprising, perfectly brief gem of a book that left me crying a little bit more than most book endings do. The book clearly references <i><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1060262~!6" target="_blank">The Little Prince</a></i>, which I haven’t read so I can’t comment on it too much. The writing, while beautiful, is accessible to a wide audience and some people might think of this as children’s literature, but its themes are so big and weighty that readers of all ages will have lots to think about.&nbsp;<br /><br /><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Fiction. Check local libraries.</i><br /><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><b>Scott Dale read <i><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1209094~!6" target="_blank">Dark Emu</a></i> by <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Pascoe,%20Bruce%22" target="_blank">Bruce Pascoe</a></b>.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-INPyJgc7pBA/XE_OUCGOFpI/AAAAAAAADsE/moGEbD7IkyYfmzwOMsROwLr5gYekw2onQCLcBGAs/s1600/Dark%2Bemu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="298" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-INPyJgc7pBA/XE_OUCGOFpI/AAAAAAAADsE/moGEbD7IkyYfmzwOMsROwLr5gYekw2onQCLcBGAs/s200/Dark%2Bemu.jpg" width="125" /></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Bruce Pascoe takes the journals of the early European explorers and shines a light on the sections of these journals that show evidence of agriculture and aquaculture developed by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. And there is a lot of evidence, from all over the country.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">It’s fascinating to read about processes of agriculture and aquaculture that were developed over thousands of years here in Australia. I had no idea about the extensive crops of grains or yams, about the Brewarrina fish traps, the eel concourses in Victoria, or many other aspects of pre-colonial Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander society covered in this book. I know I was not always the most attentive student but I don’t think these things were covered in school even though they are clearly mentioned in the source material – the journals. A lot of the explorers’ journals mentioned are actually available online and you can easily read the sections found in the book.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">This is important history that I think all Australians should be aware of and it also has implications for the future. As we strive to develop more sustainable farming methods, Pascoe suggests that the grains and plants used long before the arrival of Europeans warrant further investigation today. These are grains developed over thousands of years, suited to Australian conditions and soils and it makes sense that we investigate their viability for the future.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i>Dark Emu</i> is a fascinating read. It is a very accessible book that I highly recommend.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i>Australian author, non-fiction, author you haven't read before</i>, <i>305.89915 PAS (also available as an <a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=Y5487F3W15911.20353&amp;profile=t&amp;uri=link=3100006~!2194572~!3100001~!3100002&amp;aspect=basic_search&amp;menu=search&amp;ri=2&amp;source=~!horizon&amp;term=Dark+emu+black+seeds+%3A+agriculture+or+accident%3F+%2F&amp;index=ALLTITL" target="_blank">eBook</a>)</i></span><br /><br /><b>Brenda Carter read <a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!431509~!6"><i>The Art of Travel</i></a> by <a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1L48X75942977.5769&amp;profile=t&amp;uri=link=3100015~!132855~!3100001~!3100002&amp;aspect=basic_search&amp;menu=search&amp;ri=2&amp;source=~!horizon&amp;term=De+Botton%2C+Alain.&amp;index=PAUTHOR">Alain de Botton</a>.</b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AJg_fm0zod8/XEpZ3_ZQMiI/AAAAAAAADrg/A6JbyiY-rpMnVNdcMsuKhHdHsT_pCfraQCEwYBhgL/s1600/the-art-of-travel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AJg_fm0zod8/XEpZ3_ZQMiI/AAAAAAAADrg/A6JbyiY-rpMnVNdcMsuKhHdHsT_pCfraQCEwYBhgL/s200/the-art-of-travel.jpg" width="129" /></a></div><br />With books on subjects as diverse as religion for atheists, status anxiety and the therapeutic benefit of art, plus his School of Life blog full of relationship advice, English philosopher Alain de Botton has made a name for himself as an analyst of modern life. In <i>The Art of Travel</i>, de Botton turns his attention to why the desire to travel has become so pervasive and explores how to avoid the anxiety and disappointments that so often accompany our journeys.<br /><br />Each chapter is a juxtaposition of de Botton’s travel accounts with brief historical essays describing a famous author, thinker, or artist and their experience of travel and sense of place. If you enjoy good writing, you will lap up de Botton’s considered, fluent prose and gentle humour. The subject matter is limited by the author’s personal experiences in comfortable hotels and middle-upper class holiday destinations, but the overarching theme that travel seems to enable the mindfulness often lacking in everyday life could be applied in any situation.<br /><br />Whether you’re planning a trip or in the midst of one, <i>The Art of Travel</i> contains lots of insights to avoid common pitfalls and enhance your journey.<br /><br /><i>Non-fiction,&nbsp;910.01 DEB</i><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/rslPlM6I6Tc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/rslPlM6I6Tc/reading-challenge-reviews-last-leg.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Brenda)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/reading-challenge-reviews-last-leg.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-587948422115098295Thu, 24 Jan 2019 23:17:00 +00002019-01-25T09:17:45.424+10:00Australia DayNational dayOpening hoursAustralia Day Public Holiday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uQP41c2EyZ4/XEpHPpx2vhI/AAAAAAAADrQ/jQh9rrxlb7os07NXItekwpb7A9mNohyiACLcBGAs/s1600/14782200914_134a7f5c05_m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="148" data-original-width="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uQP41c2EyZ4/XEpHPpx2vhI/AAAAAAAADrQ/jQh9rrxlb7os07NXItekwpb7A9mNohyiACLcBGAs/s1600/14782200914_134a7f5c05_m.jpg" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">James Cook University libraries in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about/opening-hours/opening-hours-for-eddie-koiki-mabo-library,-townsville" style="background-color: white; color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Townsville</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about/opening-hours/opening-hours-for-jcu-library,-cairns" style="background-color: white; color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Cairns&nbsp;</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">will be closed for the Australia Day public holiday on Monday 28th January 2019. T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">he&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about/opening-hours/information-commons-opening-hours,-eddie-koiki-mabo-library-townsville" style="background-color: white; color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Townsville 24 hour Information Commons</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">&nbsp;will remain accessible 24/7.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Both&nbsp;</span><a href="https://whatson.townsville.qld.gov.au/events/australia-day" style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">Townsville</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/whats-on/annual-events/australia-day-celebrations" style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">Cairns</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">&nbsp;hold community events you can take part in on Australia Day.</span><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px;" /></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The libraries will reopen on Tuesday 30th January at 8:00am.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">See the full library&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/library/about/opening-hours" style="background-color: white; color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">opening hours online</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/JUh6uWLmlFY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/JUh6uWLmlFY/australia-day-public-holiday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Brenda)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/australia-day-public-holiday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-8324466272273778197Mon, 21 Jan 2019 22:00:00 +00002019-01-22T08:00:00.960+10:00Book reviewsReading ChallengeReading Challenge Reviews: Rivers, Roads and RediscoveryWell, it has been another adventurous week in the <a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-reading-challenge-for-2019.html">2019 Reading Challenge</a>, continuing with January's theme of Geography and Travel. This week we have a lovely picture book&nbsp; involving a canoe trip in Victoria, a rough-and-tumble autobiography covering "safaris" through the heart of Australia and a family trek in the footsteps of Burke and Wills.<br /><br /><br /><b>Ruth Marsh read&nbsp;<a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1283567~!6">Rivertime</a> by <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Balla,%20Trace%22">Trace Bella</a>.</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!1283567~!6" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="320" height="143" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gpY1QRzIph8/XDtFOmRlcrI/AAAAAAAAH-k/BLTMESLlmPkNsgfIECJ9SSACRgvHtx-MwCLcBGAs/s200/82282A68-C31C-4DCE-8C02-D54D7DBB02C6.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>My eight-year-old and I enjoyed this book as we travelled the road to Darwin this week. We especially enjoyed the wonderfully detailed pencil drawings of the Glenelg river and it’s amazing native Australian wildlife.<br /><br />This graphic novel is a winner of several book prizes, including the Readings Children’s Book Prize, the Wilderness Society’s Environment Award, and shortlisted in the CBCA Awards, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and Speech Pathology Australia Awards.<br /><br />It is aimed at older children and is a story about a boy, Clancy, who goes on a river journey by canoe with his Uncle along the Glenelg river in Victoria.&nbsp; Clancy slowly learns the slow pace of river life (and how to get out of the river using the jetty).<br /><br />This story acknowledges that parts of the Glenelg River are known as Bochara and are shared by the Gunditjmara and Boandik peoples. The local Aboriginal tribes are woven seamlessly into the story as Clancy and Uncle Egg meet, camp with and learn from the Aboriginal people.<br /><br />The story is also a journey of discovery. Clancy discovers a world of nature, self reliance and new knowledge as he gives up his toys, television and city life.<br /><br />I recommend this book for both adults and children alike.<br /><br /><i>Australian Author, fiction book, Author I have never read before, C820.94 BAL(T)</i><br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">Samantha Baxter read&nbsp;<a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=Q547A2201H473.67059&amp;profile=t&amp;uri=search=TL~!Crocodile%20safari%20man%20:%20my%20Tasmanian%20childhood%20in%20the%20Great%20Depression%20&amp;%2050%20years%20of%20desert%20safaris%20to%20the%20Gulf%20of%20Carpentaria%201949-1999%20/&amp;term=Crocodile%20safari%20man%20:%20my%20Tasmanian%20childhood%20in%20the%20Great%20Depression%20&amp;%2050%20years%20of%20desert%20safaris%20to%20the%20Gulf%20of%20Carpentaria%201949-1999%20/%20Keith%20Adams.&amp;aspect=basic_search&amp;menu=search&amp;source=~!horizon">Crocodile safari man: My Tasmanian Childhood in the Great Depression &amp; 50 Years of Desert Safaris to the Gulf of Carpentaria 1949-1999</a></span> by Keith Adams.</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=Q547A2201H473.67059&amp;profile=t&amp;uri=search=TL~!Crocodile%20safari%20man%20:%20my%20Tasmanian%20childhood%20in%20the%20Great%20Depression%20&amp;%2050%20years%20of%20desert%20safaris%20to%20the%20Gulf%20of%20Carpentaria%201949-1999%20/&amp;term=Crocodile%20safari%20man%20:%20my%20Tasmanian%20childhood%20in%20the%20Great%20Depression%20&amp;%2050%20years%20of%20desert%20safaris%20to%20the%20Gulf%20of%20Carpentaria%201949-1999%20/%20Keith%20Adams.&amp;aspect=basic_search&amp;menu=search&amp;source=~!horizon" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="284" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RxhLXId2NtU/XD6s1NZLuVI/AAAAAAAABz4/oWiyZPfFnpsv5vYVZ9oCf08c4FSJSZq_QCLcBGAs/s200/CrocodileSafariMan.jpg" width="141" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">I chose this book from the Reading Challenge display in the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library. I have always been a fan of the wild nature of Northern Australia.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">This book opens with a bit of personal history of the author Keith Adams, who grew up in Depression era Tasmania. It crosses time and place to close at the new millennium.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I was expecting a book that detailed the Safari itself, however this is more an explanation on how his ‘home-movie’ Northern Safari, screened successfully around Australia and the world. The Safari itself took place in 1955 in a modified Buick, and reminds me of stories my Dad and Grandad used to tell about fishing, camping and hunting in North Queensland and the NT. It is certainly an adventurous tale.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Keith doesn’t shy away from his not always above board behaviour, and honestly tells that he was probably a bit cruel to some of the animals he encountered. But he also advocates for the protection of the animals he himself hunted and the areas he explored, he has respect for the environment and the people, while also exploiting them somewhat. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">However by all accounts his film and this book, brought a new view of Northern Australia to many. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Definitely worth a read for anyone interested in Australian history and the wilds of Northern Australia.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><br /></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Australian author, non-fiction, author you haven't read before, 919.4 ADA</i><br /><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #444444;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #444444;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #444444;">Margaret Morris read </span></b><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext;"><span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=15D76M07232C3.82958&amp;profile=t&amp;uri=link=3100006~!2204217~!3100001~!3100002&amp;aspect=basic_search&amp;menu=search&amp;ri=1&amp;source=~!horizon&amp;term=Following+Burke+and+Wills+across+Australia+%3A+a+touring+guide+%2F&amp;index=ALLTITL" target="_blank">Following Burke and Wills across Australia : A touring guide</a></span></span></i></b></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #444444;">&nbsp;by</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></b><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1547531776BU9.75143&amp;profile=t&amp;uri=link=3100015~!1336777~!3100001~!3100002&amp;aspect=basic_search&amp;menu=search&amp;ri=3&amp;source=~!horizon&amp;term=Phoenix%2C+Dave%2C+1965-&amp;index=PAUTHOR">Dave Phoenix</a>.&nbsp;</span></b></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5iId5KQxD70/XD-8vklXCzI/AAAAAAAADqo/vuC1ZTAwRR4ikWai7nLD-xJ2kPKKi8jvwCLcBGAs/s1600/following-burke-and-wills-across-australia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5iId5KQxD70/XD-8vklXCzI/AAAAAAAADqo/vuC1ZTAwRR4ikWai7nLD-xJ2kPKKi8jvwCLcBGAs/s200/following-burke-and-wills-across-australia.jpg" width="138" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retracing the route of the Victorian Exploring Expedition in Australia in the 1860s, Dave Phoenix walked the entire route in 2008. The original trip was organised by the Royal Society of Victoria who wanted to contribute to the advance of geographical knowledge. Almost 150 years after Burke left Melbourne, James Cook University PhD student Dave Phoenix went to Victoria to retrace Burke's expedition by foot, with his wife Annie and their two dogs, Nala and Cooper tagging along.<br /> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The author gives detailed advice on routes, roads, monuments, and markers across the entire Australian outback. He points out specific places on the route where travellers can stand in the same spot where the explorers stood to draw and describe the landscape. Now you can follow them too. What a great idea for outback travel whilst connecting with history at the same time.<br /> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">At each stage of this great transcontinental journey, Phoenix describes the original expedition's activities and challenges. There are excerpts from the explorers' journals and descriptions of the territory in mid-19th century. There are colour photos and historical illustrations, including many from the journals of original explorers, plus maps throughout. From Melbourne to Karumba, this epic journey is the stuff that legends are made from.<br /> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>Even if you want to follow only part of the track, this is the book for you!<br /><br /><i>Australian author, Travel, non-fiction, 919.4 PHO</i></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/Q1UxJWcStvU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/Q1UxJWcStvU/reading-challenge-reviews-rivers-roads.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sharon B)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/reading-challenge-reviews-rivers-roads.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-8431872380761035269Wed, 16 Jan 2019 22:00:00 +00002019-01-17T08:00:05.567+10:00Copyrighthistory2019 - Year of the Public Domain<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cmCO7zV2Fq8/XD10-1LEPEI/AAAAAAAADqQ/IFJNEw23PesoG2fHi6oNg87AoKNIQSuuACLcBGAs/s1600/Jane%2BAusten%2527s%2Bletter3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="518" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cmCO7zV2Fq8/XD10-1LEPEI/AAAAAAAADqQ/IFJNEw23PesoG2fHi6oNg87AoKNIQSuuACLcBGAs/s200/Jane%2BAusten%2527s%2Bletter3.JPG" width="161" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-229629481/view" target="_blank">Letter from Jane Austen</a>&nbsp;to her sister <br />Cassandra, 1799 June 11</td></tr></tbody></table>As of 1 January 2019, millions of items from Australia’s national collections will fall out of copyright for the first time, becoming free for all to use. This wealth of new material is a result of changes to copyright law introduced by the <a href="https://www.vision6.com.au/ch/59452/17p13/1951601/O9wS241xrgtHTJgYqjjtYbhUUa3cleusUd2gGXbc.pdf">Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and other Measures) Act 2017</a>. The <a href="https://www.vision6.com.au/ch/59452/17p13/1822867/O9wS241xrgtHTJgYqjjtQkORhKFfBXWLEtdraDGJ.html">new laws starting on 1 January</a> give unpublished materials the same copyright term as their published counterparts - 70 years after the author’s death. Previously, unpublished material was locked in copyright in perpetuity.<br /><br />Some of the treasures now available include:<br /><div><ul><li>Captain Cook’s diaries and Jane Austen’s correspondence held at the National Library of Australia;&nbsp;</li><li>Ephemera from both World Wars, including posters, postcards, and advertising;&nbsp;</li><li>Handwritten manuscripts, letters and papers from numerous Australian poets, including Henry Lawson;</li><li>The personal papers of a multitude of former Australian politicians, including Governor General Sir Isaac Isaacs and Premier of South Australia Sir James Penn Boucaut;&nbsp;</li><li>Soldiers’ letters home, including love letters from acclaimed WWII RAAF pilot, Charles Learmonth;&nbsp;</li><li>Indigenous language research from the papers of former Protector of Aborigines, Archibald Meston.</li></ul>To celebrate, Australia’s libraries and archives are declaring 2019 the Year of the Public Domain. A good place to start exploring local historical material is in the <a href="http://libserver.jcu.edu.au/Specials/holdings.html" target="_blank">JCU Library Archives</a>.&nbsp;<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d;">Areas of strength include&nbsp;</span><a href="http://libserver.jcu.edu.au/specials/stations.html" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;">station records</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d;">,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://libserver.jcu.edu.au/specials/unions.html" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;">union and labour history</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d;">,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://libserver.jcu.edu.au/specials/mining.html" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;">mining history</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d;">,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://libserver.jcu.edu.au/specials/comphist.html" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;">company histories</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d;">,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://libserver.jcu.edu.au/specials/arts.html" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;">the arts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d;">, and&nbsp;</span><a href="http://libserver.jcu.edu.au/specials/envres.html" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;">environmental and resource issues</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d;">.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #555555; font-family: &quot;tahoma&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"></span></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/OfsINWhwoEU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/OfsINWhwoEU/2019-year-of-public-domain.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Brenda)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/2019-year-of-public-domain.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-7495434981645852111Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:24:00 +00002019-01-15T10:24:31.779+10:00Book reviewsReading ChallengeReading Challenge Reviews: Songlines, Submarines and South AmericaThe <a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-reading-challenge-for-2019.html">2019 Reading Challenge</a> is continuing at a cracking pace. This month's theme - Geography and Travel - has given us a chance to explore far flung corners of the world, as well as our own back yard.<br /><br />This week, Nathan looks at Aboriginal Australian trade routes, Sharon travels into a nuclear wasteland in a submarine and Scott spends some time in Patagonia.<br /><br /><br /><b>Nathan Miller read&nbsp;<a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!915005~!6"><i>Aboriginal dreaming paths and trading routes: The colonisation of the Australian economic landscape</i></a>, by Kerwin, Dale.</b><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!915005~!6" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="298" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JSBTJU4DOE0/XDfaeQQ_HYI/AAAAAAAABzE/z1fTYod-tN4wVKxL57rvG-pNosj6oUDUQCLcBGAs/s200/DreamingPaths.jpg" width="138" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">A common myth is that Aboriginal Australians were ignorant of the wider world, did not travel far beyond their local area - or, alternatively, roamed aimlessly. That they had no large scale geographic understanding of Australia. The truth is the whole of Australia was mapped orally and abstractly through song, songlines, spiritual stories and abstract designs - partially for trade of physical items including particularly hard stone axe heads, shells and even narcotic substances. It was also used for large ceremonies with accompanying feasts, and seeking refuge when climatic conditions were difficult both within one's own estate but also one's neighbours'. But a central core was the ceremonial knowledge that underpinned it both for exchange and simply knowing and also the customary law and spirituality that covered the whole continent. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In Queensland, several major songlines criss-cross the state from the Cape and east coast across other states and link up to the southern and western states. In this book there are various songlines covered showing the extent of this network. It was even used by tourism departments to base guides for showing interesting places to visit. Many highways and roads including in Sydney are based on some of these pathways or highways (as described by the first Europeans). A great book to read about Australia and still relevant to this day.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Australian author, non-fiction,&nbsp;994.0049915 KER</i></div><br /><br /><b>Sharon Bryan read <a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!416894~!6"><i>On the Beach</i></a> by <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Shute,%20Nevil%22">Nevil Shute</a></b>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!416894~!6" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="257" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4mLXLbe8jzY/XDajRpab3wI/AAAAAAAABy4/g63-igDmv209zAtUPwjNjsKGP_97uo8GgCLcBGAs/s200/OnTheBeach.jpg" width="132" /></a></div>You've heard of "post-apocalyptic novels"? The books set sometime after the "something that happened", where the world as we know it has be completely wiped out by a nuclear explosion (or some such) and a rag-tag group of survivors is trying to carve out a new life or civilisation?<br /><br /><i>On the Beach</i>&nbsp;is an "apocalyptic" novel. The "something that happened" is still happening, and we're doomed. China, the USSR and America had a bit of a misunderstanding involving cobalt bombs and the entire of the Northern Hemisphere has been wiped out, with the cloud of deadly nuclear radiation slowly making its way down the globe. The last vestiges of humanity are living what's left of their lives in the southern parts of Australia and South America (and New Zealand, but we don't hear much about them), and waiting to die. This is a simple fact, one that only a few deluded people avoid thinking about - the radiation is coming, and everyone <i>will</i> die of radiation poisoning in a few months' time.<br /><br />Where does "Geography and Travel" come in? Well, the book follows the last months in the lives of an American submarine commander and his Australian attaché as they head back up to the Northern Hemisphere to investigate a strange signal from Seattle. Might there be hope for life after all?<br /><br />This book isn't exactly an action thriller. More like a soap opera at the end of the world. It's still fascinating, though, and as Nevil Shute emigrated to Australia before writing it, he counts as an Australian author. Highly recommended.<br /><br /><i>Australian author, fiction,&nbsp;820A SHU 1C ONT</i><br /><i><br /></i><i><br /></i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Scott Dale read <span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!289100~!6">In Patagonia</a></i></span> by <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Chatwin,%20Bruce%22">Bruce Chatwin</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hip.jcu.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=t&amp;uri=full=3100001~!289100~!6" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3Xt4eoKbZ7E/XD0fLvraDmI/AAAAAAAABzk/W2v4CJuhTLMfT3rOsUdC6Mko80gy64khwCLcBGAs/s200/InPatagonia.jpg" width="122" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When I was moving through South America a few years back, I noticed that the further south I headed, more and more of my fellow travelers were reading Bruce Chatwin’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In Patagonia</i>. These backpackers seemed to have put down their account of a Bolivian prison and picked up Chatwin’s unconventional book about Patagonia, the most southern region of Chile and Argentina. There is an appeal to reading about an area as you travel through it but this book has a way of taking you to those windswept southern lands regardless of where you are when you read it. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">Ok, so what is this book? It is not a novel. It is more a collection or collage of stories and tales from the people and places of Patagonia. The 97 chapters range in length from a paragraph to a few pages long. The book does loosely follow Chatwin’s travels through Patagonia but is full local histories and stories that he learned along the way. We hear about Butch Cassidy’s South American exploits and how the cowboy may not have died in a shootout like Paul Newman in the famed film; we meet expatriates with a fierce loyalty to lands left long behind; we hear local tales and myths, and we get to know the beautiful landscape.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1_5cbxUzXPQ/XD0fUNS_TiI/AAAAAAAABzo/97yLuDC1F6MbJEv8J3sjrvTBwC9PWWMVgCLcBGAs/s1600/ScottPatagonia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="808" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1_5cbxUzXPQ/XD0fUNS_TiI/AAAAAAAABzo/97yLuDC1F6MbJEv8J3sjrvTBwC9PWWMVgCLcBGAs/s200/ScottPatagonia.jpg" width="149" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Intrepid Librarian,<br />Scott Dale,<br />In Patagonia</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And what a landscape it is. There are icy cold shores, snow capped mountains, brilliantly coloured wild flowers, lakes and rivers that are fed by remarkably blue glaciers, and islands that stretch out to the end of the world. Unfortunately the only photo I could find of myself in Patagonia is the attached image - a terrible pose in front of a glacier. Not quite as whimsical as Chatwin</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Non-fiction</i>,<i> 918.27046 CHA</i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><i></i><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/NdON_urHkhE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/NdON_urHkhE/reading-challenge-reviews-songlines.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sharon B)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/reading-challenge-reviews-songlines.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887985983763105815.post-8250721249973840361Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:03:00 +00002019-01-14T18:06:44.830+10:00Book reviewsReading ChallengeReading Challenge (Guest) Reviews: Pacific Islands and Italian TownsWe've had two of our favourite people send us reviews for the 2019 Reading Challenge! They have used this challenge to read a few books they've had their eye on (which, unfortunately, aren't in our collection), which just goes to show how useful a little challenge can be.<br /><br />Bethany Keats tackled a book that could have fit into several categories for <a href="https://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-reading-challenge-for-2018-week-1.html">last year's challenge</a>. We don't have the specific novel she reviewed, but you can find the book in both print and audio formats in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/facilities-and-recreation/libraries">Townsville</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/library">Cairns</a>&nbsp;City Libraries. We do have several other novels written by <a href="https://jcu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&amp;fvf=ContentType,Book%20%2F%20eBook,f&amp;l=en-AU&amp;q=AuthorCombined:%22Jones,%20Lloyd%22">Lloyd Jones</a>, if you are interested in seeing work by this author. Theresa Petray gave us a book of short stories (good job! We love short stories), which can also be borrowed from the local libraries.<br /><br /><b>Bethany Keats read <a href="https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/mister-pip"><i>Mister Pip</i> by Lloyd Jones</a>.&nbsp;</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/mister-pip" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="550" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t3oGLS-oeVc/XDxAUaxVeoI/AAAAAAAABzQ/e9KbRwL37PcxaG40ughUZCC1KLe0ytx3wCLcBGAs/s200/Mister%2BPip.jpg" width="130" /></a></div>As a book set in another country, with a film released in 2013 that helped put the Autonomous Region of Bougainville on <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-11/an-bougainville-developing-its-tourism-sector-after-civil-war/5082652">the tourism map</a>, <i>Mister Pip</i> by Lloyd Jones fits as a Geography and Tourism book.<br /><br />Set during the <a href="https://www.army.gov.au/our-stories/operations/bougainville">Bougainville Civil War</a>, Mister Pip is told from the perspective of teenage Matilda, who is introduced to Pip from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations by her teacher Mr Watts, the only white man in the village. Matilda develops a deep connection with Pip, and she uses this to help navigate her life as the war unfolds around her.<br /><br />It’s an enjoyable read, moves at a comfortable pace, and having once been a bookish teenage girl myself, I found Matilda to be a believable character. It has some dark parts, but that's to be expected with a civil war backdrop. My only reservation is that the author is not of Bougainvillean origin, and in an ideal world I'd be reading something by a Bougainvillean author.<br /><br />In Australia, we typically don't know enough about our neighbours in the Pacific, and the setting of Mister Pip is a significant time in our regional history that too many people my age don't know about. Bougainville is scheduled to have a <a href="http://www.abg.gov.pg/peace-agreement/referendum">vote on independence</a> from Papua New Guinea this year, therefore it's a good time to start getting acquainted - even if you start with a work of fiction.<br /><br /><i>Fiction, an author I haven't read before. Check local libraries.</i><br /><br /><br /><b>Theresa Petray read&nbsp;<i><a href="https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/fireflies-autumn">The Fireflies of Autumn, and other tales of San Ginese</a></i>, by Moreno Giovannoni.</b><br /><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/fireflies-autumn" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="520" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xaZ50ilZbN0/XDxAcYrnA_I/AAAAAAAABzU/LrlZcgY5uEg4JvxLZ5bDFRGvEKoTOK6YACLcBGAs/s200/The%2BFireflies%2Bof%2BAutumn.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">Most of the book is told as stories of a small town in Italy, with the familiarity, kind of raucous and sometimes pointless story telling (the stories are the point). The last section changes tone quite dramatically, and that tonal shift really made the book sing. The final section drives home how wistful those stories are and what it means to have a home that you’ve never really lived in:<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“She staunched the bleeding of memories with her stories but bequeathed him a deep, slow-burning homesickness that brought an ache into his bones that never eased and the source of which he did not comprehend until he was old.”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Doing both fun, light storytelling and deeply beautiful reflection well, Giovannoni captures something of the experience of migration. Plus, the book has a beautiful map – and who doesn’t love a book with a map?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><br /></i></div><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Fiction. Check local libraries.</i></div></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~4/32Y9HrYfbU4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JcuLibraryComputingNews/~3/32Y9HrYfbU4/reading-challenge-guest-reviews-pacific.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sharon B)0http://jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2019/01/reading-challenge-guest-reviews-pacific.html